More Kids Want To Be Chefs

25th Nov 2010

Celebrity chefs are inspiring a new generation to become chefs with a reported boom in the number of children taking up cookery classes. Around 20,000 children in secondary schools are now studying home economics or hospitality courses every year - more than double the number five years ago. Graeme Findlay, manager for home economics and hospitality subjects at the Scottish Qualifications Authority, said television cookery programmes had helped to reverse a "worrying" decline in the numbers of pupils studying food-related subjects.

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